Biography

Clarke was innate inside Pittsburgh, majored in drama at Mount Holyoke College, and attended Yale School of Drama, where in a period of her final month she performed by using the Yale Repertory Theater. A 1st pack years of Clarke's agent career were well-nigh all theatrical; eventually these were after she played a role for which she is better known, when Valerian in the 1981 Paramount/Disney film Dragonslayer. When appearing inside triplet Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She returned to theater in the early 1990's, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic.

Clarke was diagnosed using ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at a local conservatory until her death inside 2004.

Stage

Broadway

Teaneck Tanzi: A Venus Flytrap (1983) Unknown Interlude (1985) Arms & a Human (1985) A Marriage of Figaro (1985) Titanic: The Recently Musical comedy (1998)

Off-Broadway

Othello (1979) There is no Prevent of Blame (1981) Summer (1983) ''Quartermaine's Terms (1984) Thinly Ice (1984) Amount Eclipse (1984) 3 Birds Alighting In The Field (1994) Unexpected Tenderness (1994)

Regional

Tales From either A Vienna Outdoors (Up to date Haven, 1978) A Winter's Tale (Inland northwest, 1979) Bal (Chicago, 1980) Plenty (Chicago, 1981) Summer Vacation Madness (Minneapolis, 1982) Non Quite Jerusalem (Just released Haven, 1984) When Your family Such as It (San Diego, 1984) My United states's Adept (Los Angeles, 1989) A Queen & A Rebels (Baltimore, 1991) Mrs. Warren's Profession (Just released Haven, 1996) Indiscretions (Dallas, 1997) A Glass Menagerie (Portland, Maine, 1997) Griller (Baltimore, 1999) World health organization's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Rochester, NY, 2000) A Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh, 2002) Blue blood (Pittsburgh, 2002)

Film

Dragonslayer (1981) Crocodile Dundee (1983) Kenny (aka A Child Brother) (1985) Penn & Teller Develop Flushed (1989) A Large Picture (1989) Blown Away (1994) The Therapeutic For Serpents (1997) Prices of Dwelling (1997) Joe A King (1998) Nevermore (2002)

Television

Series: Northern Exposure, A Equalizer, When The Hero, Moonlighting, Sex & A City, Law & Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff"). Moving picture: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Slaying (1991), The Stepford Hubby'' (1996).